linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: serial-omap: depend on !8250

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Message-ID: <20141201163813.GA2817@atomide.com>
Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2014 08:38:13 -0800
From:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, uwe@...ine-koenig.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: serial-omap: depend on !8250_omap

* One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> [141201 06:11]:
> > Well the nightmare userspace switch from ttyS to ttyO few years ago is
> > something we want to avoid.. I think the best solution would be to make
> > serial-omap.c transparently provide support for ttyO using the new 8250
> > code so both ttyS and ttyO devices would just work. Otherwise it will
> > be years of "my serial port stopped working" questions again.
> 
> Thata a udev problem not a kernel one surely.

How do you suggest we get people to update their kernel command line
and inittab? Udev may not even be installed.

Regards,

Tony
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